Chapter 14: "Medical Collapse and Mob Uprising Combo + Bonus"
After clinging on to being an adventurer for half a year, Yuuji suddenly decided to retire, and Deabolica was enjoying the time to make his dreams come true.
However, the blissful time lasted less than a day.
"This is terrible! Suddenly, mysterious gatherings have started in the city, centered around a person calling himself an angel! Rumors are flying around that if you rely on the angel, you can be cured of any illness, and people who believe the rumors are flocking to the place from all over the city!"
"Breaking news! It has been revealed that the angel at the center of the crowd is Euge, a member of our guild! A frenzy has been stirred up that could even give rise to a new sect!"
"We've discovered something unbelievable! Eugeo is using the Adventurer's Guild's flag to gather people together! If things continue as they are, there's a chance that the head of the family will think that this incident was a coup d'état orchestrated by our guild...! What should we do?!"
"This is big news! The people who supported Eugenie have taken over the consulate! The heads of the families have escaped, and there are rumors that Eugenie and his people have declared the establishment of a new city government!"
"...teeth?"
Deabolica, who was immersed in his calculations in his office, was stunned by the breaking news that kept coming in from his subordinates. No matter how you look at it, it was an unexpected situation, and in the confusion, some information was even received that could only be a false report.
"Wh-what's going on?! Why is Yuuji at the center of a rebellion...?!"
But Deabolica is not incompetent.
Order an immediate reexamination to reassemble accurate information about what is happening in the city.
As a result, it was discovered that the gathering was not a rebellion at all, but rather that people had gathered for a business that Yuushi had started, and that he was using the Adventurer's Guild as a banner for that business. The subordinates who had spread false rumours, such as that they had attacked the consulate together with the people, that the head of the family had escaped, and that the establishment of a new government had been proclaimed, were severely punished.
Apparently her mother, the current head of the family, is still doing well at the consulate.
However, if things continued as they were, it would be inevitable that the Adventurer's Guild would be seen as inciting the masses. After all, Yuuji was using the guild's flag.
Deabolika summarized the information that was currently known and sent a courier to quickly convey it to his mother. This should make her understand that he has no intention of rebellion. Deabolika has no intention of killing his mother. For now.
"Wow, I was really surprised. I never imagined that Yuuji had such a strong charisma."
"... Wes. It was you who gave him the privilege to use the Adventurer's Guild's nameplate to do business. Did you know this would happen?"
Wes shrugged his shoulders as Deabolica gave him a stern look.
"There's no way I could have predicted something like this. I just wanted Yuuji to learn a little about the going rates of this world through business. After all, he's been living in extreme poverty for the last six months, doing nothing but digging gutters and hunting rabbits. I'm sure he doesn't have a proper sense of the going rates... Look, just look. According to the report, the treatment cost five silver coins. The doctor our family employs charges three gold coins for just one . And he heals him in an instant. No wonder everyone would want to save Yuuji."BloodlettingShake
Wes said with some amusement as he slapped the report with the back of his hand.
Bloodletting is a treatment often performed by doctors in Naropa, in which the cause of illness is removed by removing bad blood from the body. It is believed to be a universal cure, and any sick patient will have bloodletting done as a first resort. Of course, this can't cure illnesses. In his heart, Wes also thinks that the doctors employed in this town are a bunch of con artists. However, if the medical treatments provided by doctors can provide relief to people's hearts, even if only for a little comfort, then they are worth existing... That is, if there weren't angels who could instantly cure illnesses for the price of a child's pocket money.
"Well, I think the problem was with the guild, who took advantage of his silence and gave him odd jobs, leaving him to die. If they'd given him a more decent job, like making deliveries to other towns or selling the fruits of his hunting expeditions, they wouldn't have thought of treating him for such a small amount of money. It was you who restricted his information about the world, keeping him ignorant, in order to get what you wanted."
"You said that..."
Deabolica gritted his teeth and glared at his cousin who had taken the opportunity to make a sarcastic remark.
Deabolica's plan is already beginning to fall apart. There's no way they can just let Yuuji, who has caused so many problems, end it by becoming an adventurer's husband as if nothing had happened. They have to come up with an ending that the head of the family can accept. So that she can continue to stay in her office at the Adventurer's Guild.
She wonders if her cousin had engineered this to thwart Deabolica's plans. People with shady pasts tend to believe that others are plotting as well.
Well, it all starts with capturing Yuushi. We have to take him away from the people. Fortunately, he has proven useful in ways we never expected. Only by getting him into our hands can we make use of him, or forget about him.
"Take Yuji away immediately! Send the guards to arrest him! Don't let Yuji get hurt! I don't care if the worst happens to the people!"
"Dearbolica, please calm down. You don't have the authority to give orders to the guards, do you? The guards are under your sister's jurisdiction. If you go against the rules and give orders on your own, you will be suspected of plotting a coup d'état."
Deabolica bit his lip in response to Wes's calm remark. He must have been very shaken up, as his usual cool, strategist demeanor was starting to fade. Well, if he was suspected of coup d'état, he couldn't stay calm.
Deabolika took a deep breath and gave his orders again.
"Ask any free adventurer for a special request. Capture Yuuji without inflicting a single scratch on him. Successful capture will earn you 10 gold coins, and any slight injury will incur a fine! Hurry!"
"Well, there's no need for that."
"What's wrong?!"
"Yuji-san was just taken into custody by the guards and brought to the first floor of the guild. Apparently he had cried to the guards and begged them to take him in."
"...Just say it quickly!!"
After yelling at Wes who had just nonchalantly passed him, Deabolica ran out of the office at full speed. This was a rare sight for Deabolica, who never ran in the guild house and always showed off a dignified and calm demeanor.
Watching him leave, Wes chuckled low in his throat.
"You seem a little more calm now. You really are an interesting person, Yuuji-san."
Then, while his colleagues looked at him with strained expressions, he leisurely left his office and followed Deabolica.
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I was wrapped in a blanket in a corner of the first floor of the Adventurer's Guild, shivering.
"The crowds are scary, the crowds are scary, the crowds are scary..."
After finishing my treatment in the slum, I set off to the next area, but an unbelievable number of slum residents followed me. There were several hundred of them. They wanted to join the march because they admired me, but the number had already exceeded the controllable limit. I had no intention of controlling them in the first place, and even though they admired me, they were slum residents after all. It was entirely possible that they would take advantage of the confusion and commit robbery.
...Or rather, looting almost happened. Some of them went out to the area outside the slums and, in a festive mood, tried to steal goods from the stalls around. The ladies under the old man in the slums stopped them, but at this point I had decided that it would be impossible for me to lead the march and provide treatment.
I stopped and tried to somehow persuade them to disperse, but perhaps because of mob mentality or because they had me as a banner, the slum residents became overly bullish and wouldn't listen. They started talking about marching through the whole city to make the angel's majesty known. That would have been bad enough, but some even started saying crazy things like, "Let's attack the consulate where the lord is and create our own city government!" I think some political prisoners hiding in the slums were taking advantage of this opportunity to use me to launch a coup d'état.
I realized that I had reached my limit. If I stayed with them, I would be framed as the mastermind of a rebellion and would be completely ruined. I tried to escape somehow, but the excited crowd surrounded me, trying not to let me escape. Some of them even tried to take off my clothes in the confusion, and I felt that not only my life but also my chastity was in danger.
However, the guards came rushing to the scene after hearing a report that an unregistered meeting was taking place there, so I pleaded for help, desperate for my life, and somehow managed to bring them safely to the Adventurer's Guild. The angry slum residents... and the political prisoners who had blended in with them were unarmed, as expected. They didn't seem prepared to face the well-armed guards. One of the guards snatched me away, and we pushed our way through the group that was turning into a mob, and they took me to the Adventurer's Guild.
Beside me was Amitya, the guard who had brought me here, looking at me with a look that was neither bewildered nor astonished.
"You've done something outrageous again. An attempted coup is not something a citizen of two days should do."
"I was just about to be made a figurehead. I'm innocent. What would I gain from staging a coup?"
"Well, I know you're not the type to plot something like that. The people in charge don't know what kind of person you are... No, come to think of it, even I don't know what you're thinking about. Hehe."
"Amy-san, this is no laughing matter..."
Amy looks at my face and gives a cool smile, as if she's having some fun.
She was the first gatekeeper I spoke to when I was transported to another world. I let her through the city gates secretly, promising to thank her later.
I thanked him properly. I borrowed the bar's kitchen to make him some sandwiches, and he sighed with a kind of indecisiveness that sounded like he was both disappointed and relieved. I guess he expected me to give him something more expensive.
However, when I told him that it was a homemade lunch that I had made, he showed it to his colleagues with a big smile on his face, so I'm sure he was happy. Since then, we have settled into a relationship where we chat whenever we see each other passing through the city gate. It's good that I have some knowledge of cooking.
You see, I'm quite good at cooking. When I was in Japan, I used to make my own workout menus. I also made a lot of sweet things because my family liked them. Since coming to this world, the inn rooms don't have kitchens, and it seems like cooking home-cooked meals isn't common in the city anyway, so I haven't done it in a while. But if I have the chance, I'd like to cook for myself.
...If you're escaping from the crowd and being protected by the guards, it's just a dream.
Let me explain!
For Brishavian women, a man who is a good cook is very valuable! Living in a house with a kitchen means you are a middle-class or higher family, and a man who has cooking skills is quite rare! Just seeing a man cooking makes an unmarried Brishavian woman wet with fantasies of a happy married life!
And having a man make lunch for you is an eternal dream for single women, and is now considered the same as a marriage proposal! In Japan, it's like saying, "Make me miso soup every day!" Ami's winning streak caused her unmarried coworkers to shed tears of blood in frustration! And Yuji struck another blow to his own neck! ≫
"But it's amazing. I had no idea it had become so important."
Amy spoke as if it was someone else's problem, her gaze fixed on the window.
There, a packed crowd was surrounding the guild house, yelling and shouting in a murderous manner.
"Give me back my angel!"
"Is the Adventurer's Guild trying to monopolize the angel's miracles?!"
"Officials are tyrannical! Officials are tyrannical!"
"The angel belongs to all the citizens! Release her immediately!"
"My child has not been examined yet! Please, examine him!"
"We in the slums will protect the angel! We can't leave her in the care of a nobleman!"
"Don't get carried away, poor boy! You'll have everything you need in the business district!"
"What did you say?! In the first place, angels preached about equality, so you discriminators have no right to protect angels! You probably just want to use them as a tool for your own business! ...So you're planning to get the angels into debt and have a "flesh rod feast"?! You perverted merchants!"
「You're the one who's perverted, aren't you?! You're probably planning to gather around and show off your meat rods under the guise of hospitality or something! That's what vulgar poor people are like!」
"Angel, please show me your face!"
"Please grant me your angel seed! Let me embrace you!"
"Angel! Angel! Angel!"
Wow, what a hellish scene.
It's also awful that allies are fighting among themselves. What's more, the fight is just a battle of wits between two idiots trying to one-up. I've never seen such a vulgar class struggle. Also, what's with the "Niku-Zo Wasshoi"...? Is your translation skill bugged?
"...I think you know this, but don't ever show your face. It will only add fuel to the fire."
"No, there's no way I'd want to go outside in this situation..."
As Amy pointed this out to me, I sighed gloomily in response.
How on earth did it end up like this?
I just cured everyone's illness equally, for five silver coins.
...I guess it was too cheap after all. It's about the same price as eating out once.
I wonder how much this would have gone for.
Now that I'm thinking about it,
"Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!"
A voice that sounded like a monster bird's cry suddenly echoed throughout the guild house.
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*The following is unrelated to the content of the main story.
I wrote this silly extra to complement the serious main story.
"A Guard's Notes"
March 12th
Today, as always, I am guarding the castle gate.
It was a simple and boring job that consisted of checking merchants' trading cards and collecting tolls, checking the guild cards of adventurers entering and leaving, and turning away refugees who tried to sneak into town.
I wonder if sometimes a merchant who has "forgotten" their transaction certificate might give us a tip... but that usually happens through the "back door," so there's no benefit to us.
According to Amy, who is in charge of a different time zone, "guarding the castle gate is the greatest honor for a guard." He really is a damn serious and strict guy.
Certainly, the gatekeeper at the castle gate is the star of the guards, and it's a job that gives the impression of protecting the city. But in essence, what they do is that of an immigration officer. Government work is so boring... Amy is great because she does this kind of job every day with enthusiasm.
She's so strict that she doesn't seem to have any luck with men... She's almost 25 and she's never even slept with a male prostitute at a brothel, so she must be a bit sick. Of course, there's probably some family reason why she can't have children with a bad partner.
Well, no matter how long I wait to get married, I'm confident that I'll be able to get married sooner than Ami. I have a favorite, after all.boyfriendprostitute
Hehehe, sorry Amy. Next time I'll pretend I forgot and leave the porn on your desk, so please forgive me. That guy has a damn serious attitude towards work, but he's sulky, so it's fun to tease him.
March 15th
When Amy returned to the barracks, something seemed strange.
He seemed a bit spaced out, and his responses were absent-minded...
Then suddenly, he broke into a gentle smile and shook his head from side to side.
Her partner was off duty today and had a date with her husband, so Ami should have been working alone, but I wonder if something happened during her shift. Maybe she received a white medicine as a gift from the Dark Guild... No, that wouldn't happen to Ami.
Or maybe she was seduced by a refugee and let him pass... No, no. If there was a man who could make that strict Amy succumb, he would be a walking sex ball of eroticism. I'd like to see it.
If I only write about the same sex, it'll seem like I'm a lesbian and it'll be creepy, so I'll write about men too.
The day after tomorrow marks one year since I started dating my boyfriend, keep on puffing!
Uhehe, the day after tomorrow I'm finally going to propose to him! And then I'll buy him out and we'll finally get married! Then I'll have free pregnancy sex every day! I'm in trouble! I might have to take maternity leave next year! I've saved up a lot of money, so bring it on, baby!
March 17th
Dumped
March 18th
I'm okay because I have Amy.
I'm not the last one in line, Amy will take the lead at the back so I can endure it.
I'm going to find a new love now. Good luck, me.
March 20th
Amy showed off her boyfriend's special homemade sandwiches.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa why why why!?
Why a sandwich?
It was an open sandwich served in a neat basket, filled with peanut butter, sausage and mashed potatoes, with a crispy roasted crust, garnished with slivered potatoes and fried onions, and topped with watercress for decoration; it looked absolutely delicious.
I tried to convince myself that it was a lie, that I must have bought it at the store to look good, but it was impossible. There's no way that a restaurant in Dai Burishab could make such delicate and delicious-looking food! A restaurant in Dai Burishab serves dirty food like mashed potatoes roughly doused in green parsley sauce!
Why!? When did you get a boyfriend!? I thought Amy would be the last one left out of our classmates! You betrayed me! You betrayed my feelings! Aaaaaaaah!!
I asked calmly, "Are you kidding? Does a guy like that really exist?" and she quietly introduced me to her from behind a corner, saying, "It's that guy."
He was an exotic young Asian boy, sweat pouring from his naked torso in the sun, cleaning a gutter for some reason. He was slim, but well-muscled around the shoulders, with six-pack abs, and an incredibly sexy physique. The whole area was filled with a foul stench of poop and sludge, but the area around him was sparkling and seemed to smell amazing. He was also an Asian with black hair and very young. Just the concept of him was erotic. His existence was a mass of wankability. A gem of eroticism created by God. The fact that he was Amy's younger lover made my brain burn... ah ah ah...
…I don't remember how I got back home after that. The next thing I knew, I was holding a pen like this.
Even now, when I think back on it, it's so erotic that it seems like it's not of this world. What good deeds did a woman do in a past life to have that guy make her bento? If a man makes her bento, it basically means he's going to marry her. Even now, Amy is having a lovey-dovey time with such a great man. He makes such loving food for her every day. Just thinking about it makes me so frustrated... my lower abdomen is getting hotter than ever! Amazing! Frustration is making me horny! Frustration is making me horny! What, I had this kind of ability!?
I'm going to jerk off to this diary and go to sleep today.
Thank you Amy for the best wank material. Explode.
1 :Yuji estimates it to be about 1,000 yen.
2 :Yuji estimates it to be about 500,000 yen.
Oh
If I don't do something stupid and erotic every once in a while, I'll go crazy and die.
Oil is a luxury item in this world, but I taught the barmaid my recipe, and in return I got to use it for free.
Sandwiches, french fries, and onion rings are considered "delicate dishes made with love" in the world-renowned Great Brishab Empire.